May I suggest 'Lilya Litvyak' in honour of the WW2 female soviet fighter pilot who became famous as the 'White Rose of Stalingrad'. She was eventually shot down in her Yak-1 in 1943 in a battle which saw 8 Me-109s concentrating on her.
She was just 22 years old.
Her remains were only discovered in 1979; in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev conferred the posthumous honour of Hero of the Soviet Union upon her.
So this would link gallantry, sacrifice, Yak history and perestroika in a fitting way - particularly if you were to paint her signature white lily on the aircraft as well as the words Геро́й Сове́тского Сою́за (Hero of the Soviet Union.....I think).
For more information, including the correct cyrillic spelling of her name, see
http://pratt.edu/~rsilva/litvyak.htm